Helidon Gjergji

Helidon Gjergji (born 1970 in Tirana, Albania) is a contemporary artist who works in various media.

He is originally from Shkodër where he grew up and lived till at the end of High School.

Throughout his career, Gjergji has worked in a variety of mediums, from painting, to media installation, and to architecture.

For the Project Biennial 3 in Konjic, Bosnia & Herzegovina (2015), which commissions artwork for the atomic bunker of the former Yugoslavia, he created for one of its rock-ribbed tunnel-like corridors a hall of mirrors in which the slogans of militaristic video games constantly appear.

For Manifesta 8 (2010), he created an olfactory installation out of marketplace spices associated with the ethnic communities resident in Murcia (Spain).